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Powerhouse in Crisis: Elizabeth Ann Macgregor interview with 702 ABC Sydney, Hamish Macdonald
This morning at 8.35 am, Elizabeth Ann Macgregor joined 702 ABC Radio’s Hamish Macdonald to discuss the ongoing controversy surrounding Lisa Havilah and the Powerhouse, including the leadership questions and institutional accountability surrounding the new Powerhouse Parramatta. Sign the Petition As the author of The Power of the Real and former director of the Museum […]
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ESSAY I The Architecture of unconcealment: exploring Mona’s new wing
Mona reveals itself slowly. Unlike classical museum architecture that conveys authority through monumental facades and grand, towering entranceways, visitors enter the Nonda Katsalidis-designed building through a one-storey mirrored entrance, literally reflecting its human scale and obscuring the magnitude of the floor space below. Subsequent extensions to Mona’s original 2011 layout—Pharos and Siloam—complicated the structure through […]
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Tagged Joshua Yeldham, Julian Charriere, Lucas Grogan, Lucy Hawthorne, MONA, tasmania, The Museum of Old and New Art
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TRIBUTE I Béla Tarr: the sound of the dead
Tarr may not be a household name but he is an arthouse-hold name, known primarily for his mature, signature works as director—Damnation, 1987, Sátántangó, 1994, Werckmeister Harmonies, 2000, The Man from London, 2007, and The Turin Horse. These works are all black and white, with long takes and a focus on mud, wind, rain, decaying […]
Reinstate Lisa Havilah to the Powerhouse
We call on the NSW Government to lift Lisa Havilah’s suspension and reinstate her as Chief Executive of Powerhouse, allowing her to lead the opening of Powerhouse Parramatta in November 2026. Over the past eight years, Lisa Havilah has led the renewal of the Powerhouse and the creation of Powerhouse Parramatta. She conceived and championed […]
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ESSAY I Euan Macleod’s In Darkness Let Me Dwell
Two years ago, Macleod returned to his hometown of Christchurch, New Zealand, to be with his mother during the final phase of her life. At Sumner Beach, they revisited the familiar rock formation known as Tuawera or Cave Rock, a hulking, volcanically formed volume opening onto an interior space that changes with the tides. To […]
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Tagged Australian art, Australian painting, contemporary art, Euan Macleod, Joe Frost, King Street Gallery, King Street Gallery on William, painting
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ESSAY I Tiarnie Edwards: Light it Up
Edwards was born on Kaurna Yarta in 1998 and raised on Nauo Country in the small seaside community of Tulka, on the Lower Eyre Peninsula. One of nine siblings, as a child Edwards’ mother would take them to the community house next door where they would sit with senior women, copying flower images from old […]
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Tagged Australian art, ceramics, indigenous art, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sarah Heatherington, sculpture, Tiarnie Edwards
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REVIEW I Impressions and Impressionism: A Collector’s Delight
Under the auspices of Geelong Gallery’s director, Humphrey Clegg, and co-curated by Marianne Mathieu, former scientific director of the Musée Marmottan Monet, and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, the great-great-granddaughter of Paul Durand-Ruel (1831–1922), Discovering the Impressionists coincides with Geelong Gallery’s 130th anniversary. The exhibition also complements the gallery’s own extensive collection, which Clegg says, “was built […]
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Tagged Alan Krell, Claude Monet, French Impressionism, Geelong Regional Gallery, impressionism, Impressionist, Impressionists
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REVIEW I The MIGHT and MAGNITUDE of Nike Savvas
Nike Savvas: Purple Haze presents intimate screen prints and immersive large-scale installation and video work by Savvas from 2005–2026, each evocative of different places and landscapes. This ambitious exhibition was developed in partnership with the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, and supported by TLE Electricals. In a time of thinly spread federal and […]
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Tagged AGNSW, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of NSW, Lucy Stranger, Nike Savvas, Orange Regional Gallery, Sydney
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ESSAY I Salvatore Zofrea’s Day Cycle
Although physically he is of modest stature, Zofrea has devoted much of his life to grand projects that have been conceived and executed on a monumental scale. These have included the painting on a large scale of all 150 Psalms (of which he has completed 105) and the hundred woodblocks of his Appassionata series, 1994–1999, […]
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Tagged Australian painter, Australian painting, Day Cycle, Fountain Court, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Parliament of NSW, Salvatore Zofrea, Sasha Grishin
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REVIEW I Beaming through Cartier
Through a multidisciplinary collaboration between Rotterdam-based curators, architect Paul Cournet of CLOUD and artist-designer Sabine Marcelis of Studio Sabine Marcelis, the exhibition explores the interplay of light, colour and material that has come to define Cartier’s distinctive aesthetic. Spanning the early twentieth century to the present day, the exhibition charts the evolution of the house […]
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Tagged Amélie Blanc, Cartier, Diamonds, jewelry, NGV, Victoria & Albert
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ESSAY I AI and Animating: ‘The Artist and the End’
Artificial intelligence will be used by young artists who started using it as kids on their phones. They will see it as a natural extension of drawing and painting. Artificial intelligence has enabled Hellen Rose and I to move from purely documentary making to creating animated films and music videos. During COVID-19 we staged the […]
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REVIEW I Listen rather than declare: La Biennale di Venezia Arte, 2026
This year’s Biennale arrives under more complex circumstances than most. It is shaped by the profound loss of its curator, Koyo Kouoh (1967–2025), whose exhibition In Minor Keys, 2026, was realised posthumously by the team she assembled, and by a wider climate of conflict and division. Against this backdrop, its invitation to slow down and […]
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Tagged Australian art, Creative Australia, Installation, Khaled Sabsabi, Michael Dagostino, Michelle Chanique, Venice Biennale, Venice Biennale 2026
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ESSAY I The Art of Gathering: Fowlers Gap and the Australian Artist Camp
No artist creates in isolation. Every painting carries traces of the conversations, places and histories that shaped it, preserving within its surface a particular moment of exchange. While the studio remains a site of making, artistic practice has long been nourished by movement beyond its walls—by journeys into the landscape, encounters with others and the […]
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Tagged Arthouse gallery, Artist Camp, Fowlers Gap, Landscape, landscape painting, Solomiya Sywak
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Shane Forrest: to the point
The weekend markets at Fairfield Showground have been one of Western Sydney’s great institutions for more than fifty years. Fresh fruit and vegetables, children’s clothes, secondhand gear and hot food, all the stalls are placed in rows, each designated by a painted number. In time, as the numbers fade, they are repainted. But in many […]
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REVIEW I Deus Ex Lanthimos? Confused or confusing interventions in the work of Yorgos Lanthimos
In recent times, Yorgos Lanthimos has shifted toward photography, noting in a Guardian interview, 2026, that he needs respite, saying, “it might be a couple of weeks, it might be years.” While bad news for cinephiles, this change presents an opportunity to reconsider his filmography, both as a whole and in relation to his photographs. […]
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Tagged Aleks Wansbrough, Art, Bugonia, Dogtooth, film, Greek, photography, Poor Things, The Lobster, Yorgos Lanthimos
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Issue 75
EDITOR’S NOTE The portrait of Jordan Gogos on the cover of this issue of Artist Profile, accompanied by the phrase “out of the box,” aligns the artist and fashion designer for Iordanes Spyridon Gogos with ideas of experimentation, collaboration and disruption that challenge what is considered “conventional” in art and fashion. This attitude has driven […]
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REVIEW I If You’re Going to Be a Smart-Arse, You Bloody Better Be Right
In Australia, political cartoons were altered by several events during the 1960s: the arrival of Les Tanner’s (1927‒2001) instinctual wit at The Bulletin, Bruce Petty’s (1927‒2023) “doodle-bombs” at The Australian and a group of anti-establishment cartoonists at The Age. This tradition of political satire continues and is honoured in the current exhibition, Behind the Lines […]
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Tagged Behind the Lines, Behind the Lines 2025: Are We Rolling?, Cartoon, H. R. Hyatt-Johnston, Museum of Australian Democracy, political art
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REVIEW I Grounding Ambition at Newcastle
I had come to see my daughter sing in Deborah Kelly’s Creation Choir and was fortunate enough to make it inside the gallery for the opening performances (many did not). Creation, 2020, is a beautiful work and was perfectly chosen for this event, celebrating the spirit in art that doesn’t look at what is but […]
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Tagged Alex Wisser, Architecture, Art, Australian art, Newcastle, Newcastle Art Gallery
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ESSAY | Jorge Mariño Brito: Between Bodies
Cuban-born, Brisbane-based artist Jorge Mariño Brito’s practice unfolds across two material registers that are best understood not as parallel tracks but as entwined explorations. Both his figurative oil paintings and works made using “Stratpulp” (a handmade paper technique the artist developed that creates fibre from second-hand linen clothes) operate within a shared conceptual field, one […]
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Tagged Australian painting, Bradley Vincent, Brisbane, Jorge Mariño Brito, Mitchell Fine Art, painting
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REVIEW I Enter the edge: Elvis Richardson’s suburbia
The first work you encounter in Edge City is a gate, Settlement #8, 2025. Not one to pass through (not anymore), but a threshold nonetheless. Salvaged and painted a feminine blush pink, the decorative steel has been altered and embellished with the title of the work in flowing cursive script. Its colour softens the firm […]
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Tagged Art, Brooke Boland, Elvis Richardson, Exhibitions, painting, sculpture, Wollongong Art Gallery
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REVIEW | Designed to Impress: Epic Times
Designed to impress, the number and size of paintings—twenty-nine at nine square metres each and one even bigger—are a spectacle, lifting the exhibition from an overview of recent Anangu art and its recent politics to an epic dimension. In this respect, Ngura Pulka is akin to the The Aboriginal Memorial, 1987–88, installed nearby. Forty-three artists […]
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Tagged Aboriginal art, APYACC, Epic Country, Ian McLean, indigenous art, National Gallery of Australia, Ngura Pulka
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BOOK REVIEW | Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism
Skilfully assimilating secondary sources throughout Paris in Ruins, Smee at the conclusion of Part One, “Salon of 1869,” writes that Auguste Renoir’s and Claude Monet’s 1869 paintings of La Grenouillère, a popular rowing and bathing resort on the Island of Croissy at Bougival, in effect “invented Impressionism.” Painted in plein air with” short, staccato strokes, […]
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Tagged Alan Krell, ARTIST PROFILE, Impressionist, Paris in Ruins, Sebastion Smee
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ESSAY | Between Skyline and Stars: Shireen Taweel and Jasper Knight at Mosman Art Gallery
Multidisciplinary artist Shireen Taweel looks skyward, into the night and beyond, with her exhibition the trig point. Drawing on fieldwork in 2025 at the Siding Spring Observatory, Warrumbungle National Park, New South Wales, she traces deep connections between current scientific questions of space and enduring notions of the sacred, extending an earlier focus on ritual […]
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Tagged collage, Installation, Jasper Knight, Mosman Art Gallery, painting, paper, sculpture, Shireen Taweel, Solomiya Sywak
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